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Dec 9

Dec 9 This Week in Religion (November 5)

DENVER — James Dobson, the voice of conservative Christian group
Focus on the Family, will no longer host its flagship radio broadcast
and is cutting formal ties with the organization that he founded more
than 30 years ago, the evangelical group said Friday.

Dobson, 73,
and the board of directors both agreed about the moves, which will go
into effect at the end of February, ministry officials said. The
decision to part ways was amicable and long anticipated, said Gary
Schneeberger, spokesman for the Colorado Springs-based group.

GENEVA (RNS/ENI) Lutheran World Federation leaders plan to apologize
for their ancestors' 16th-century persecution of Anabaptists, religious
reformers whose successors include Mennonites and the Amish.

"We ask for forgiveness -- from God and from our Mennonite sisters
and brothers -- for the harm that our forebears in the sixteenth
century committed to Anabaptists," says a statement adopted unanimously
on Monday (Oct. 26) by the LWF's council.

OKLAHOMA CITY (RNS) A tiny town in Oklahoma is throwing its support
behind a push to build a privately run, faith-based prison that would
employ only Christians and attempt to rehabilitate inmates using
biblical concepts.

Bill Robinson, founder of Corrections Concepts Inc,
A Dallas-based nonprofit ministry, said he is living proof of how
ex-criminals can become positive influences in society, with God's
help.